This workshop will instruct participants in how to teach students to communicate using high impact, simple activities.
The workshop facilitators have recently published a book for university educators. It contains a wide variety of practical exercises to teach communication which can easily be implemented in existing courses by academics. In this workshop, participants will experience a sample of these activities. These will include improv theatre, message planning, power openings and note-taking. Bring your enthusiasm and leave your fear of failure at the door.
We conclude with access to the book and a short overview of how to navigate and use it to help students in your courses and programs become influential communicators.
Participants will receive access to the book Teaching Science Students to Communicate: A Practical Guide (Rowland and Kuchel 2023), that contains theory chapters and lesson plans to expand your repertoire for teaching communication. Get your students engaging, writing, distilling, speaking, listening, investigating, storytelling, communicating with intent, genre, joining the conversation, arguing, organising, and working.
Session participants will:
- learn new techniques and approaches to teaching communication
- attain a better ability to teach students about communication using learnings from the workshop and the book.
Presenters:
- Associate Professor Louise Kuchel and co-authors.
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